cygnet
/ˈsɪɡnɪt
/noun
A young swan.After hatching, parents led the cygnets to feeding grounds on lawns surrounding the lake or shallow water close to the shore....
- Goslings graze with their parents out of the water whereas swans teach cygnets in the water to be aquatic feeders.
- Congratulations and well done to the two English anglers who were fishing on Gills Pond recently and rescued a young cygnet that was in trouble.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne 'swan', based on Latin cycnus, from Greek kuknos.
Rhymes
- internal rhyme
- internal secretion
- internal skeleton
- internal stress
- internal wave
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- internation
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